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The ESPN TrueHoop Utah Jazz SiteSat, 17 Mar 2018 23:55:40 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.3By: Jake Devereauxhttp://saltcityhoops.com/retro-jazz-billy-paultz-takes-one-for-the-team/#comment-1103
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:39:17 +0000http://saltcityhoops.com/?p=5325#comment-1103amazing post dude haha
]]>By: Matthewhttp://saltcityhoops.com/retro-jazz-billy-paultz-takes-one-for-the-team/#comment-1099
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:04:16 +0000http://saltcityhoops.com/?p=5325#comment-1099I remember this game clearly since I watched it nearly a dozen times. As I recall, I couldn’t watch it live because we had to go to church so we put our new VCR to the test. I never liked the Whopper much — he seemed like an out-of-shape joke of a player with his barrel chest and regrettable running form — but he really took one for the team that day.

We had season tickets that year and I loved that team. They were an odd collection of spare parts outside the Golden Griff and A.D., but I thought they played with a can-do, never-quit attitude all season. My favorite player was backup center Jeff Wilkins because he visited my downtown Salt Lake junior high school a couple years before, giving some sage advice and offering some funny jokes. But he wasn’t getting it done in this particular playoff game and the Whopper came in to save the season.

For years afterward in NerfHoop games and battles at the local ward gym, my brothers and I would intentionally stick our eye sockets in an offensive player’s elbow to simulate the Whopper’s heroics. We’d rub our face in their arms for a bit and then flail to the ground at the post player’s slightest movement. The Whopper Defense was rarely successful but always good for a chuckle or two.

Is it just me or was that blonde chick going up the building wearing a blue bathrobe or was that the style in the eighties. The kill scene was not so gruesome, even by eighties standards. And one more thing: the good guy lost his sword early in the the fight, how did he get a sword to kill the bad guy in the end? Another things, where do those ninjas keepb their stuff? I did not see any pockets.